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Title: | Religion and politics in a multi-ethnic society, Nigeria: reflections of a Christian theologian |
Author: | Manus, Ukachukwu Chris |
Year: | 2006 |
Periodical: | Orita: Ibadan Journal of Religious Studies |
Volume: | 38 |
Issue: | 1-2 |
Pages: | 1-26 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Nigeria |
Subjects: | religion politics plural society Christianity Islam |
Abstract: | Nigeria has inhabitants of diverse ethnic and cultural backgrounds. This paper explores the nexus between religion and politics in the context of the political manipulation by political demagogues of the three major Nigerian religions, viz. Christianity, Islam and African Traditional Religions. Adopting the phenomenological method, it critically studies these religions in order to show that in a multicultural polity like Nigeria, religion remains a motive force. It argues that Islam and Christianity should be held as equal actors in the quest for justice and the rule of law in Nigeria's fledgling democracy. Politicization of religion in Nigeria must be shunned because of its dysfunctional consequences in an overheated, religiously pluralistic, polity. Notes, ref., sum. [ASC Leiden abstract] |